Last edited by JonnyFolds; 06-15-2009 at 11:59 AM.
"Floyd needs to inject Xylocaine into his balls to gain the courage to fight Pacquiao."
- and I quote from some random guy on the internet
you can use boughten or purchased or bought or any number of words.
Those who have BOUGHT not boughten.
Technically, boughten is not accepted.
Present Tenses Simple Continuous Perfect Present Perfect Continuous
- The aim of this page is to help you with your problems about English tenses.
- The table below shows you most of the tenses in English. (+) means a positive and (-) means a negative meaning.
Sentence (+) He buys .... He is buying ... He has bought ... He has been buying ....
Sentence (-) He doesn't buy .... He isn't buying He hasn't bought ... He hasn't been buying ...
Question Does he buy ...? Is he buying ....? Has he bought ...? Has he been buying ...? .
Past Tenses Simple Continuous Perfect Past Perfect Continuous
Sentence (+) He bought .... He was buying ... He had bought ... He had been buying ....
Sentence (-) He didn't buy .... He wasn't buying He hadn't bought ... He hadn't been buying ...
Question Did he buy ...? Was he buying ....? Had he bought ...? Had he been buying ...? .
Future Tenses Simple Continuous Perfect Future Perfect Continuous
Sentence (+) He will buy .... He will be buying ... He will have bought ... He will have been buying ....
Sentence (-) He won't buy .... He will not be buying.. He won't have bought ... He won't have been buying ... Question Will he buy ...? Will he be buying ....? Will he have bought ...? Will he have been buying .?
Hope that clears things.
Last edited by brucelee; 06-16-2009 at 12:59 AM.
Ikariam
Bruce lee you are wrong; that is part of an older english, as it has adapted, boughten is usable in a grammatical fashion. Hence why it is in webster. Bought and Boughten both exist in past and present tense. Usually boughten is used in pass tense in modern language, and likely will adapt into "the" word for pass tense "buy" in the future.
Teath is correct, is a regional thing. (thang) "Bought" is used in some parts of the US and "Boughten" in others. I'm not so sure if the origin is a UK vs US thing.
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